Hardening NGINX SSL Config on the Cloud Server

April 24, 2016

I tried running thepinknotes.com in Qualys SSL Labs SSL Server Test and found out that there were a couple of issues on my SSL configurations. I was only supposed to take a look but one thing led to another and decided to try and increase my score to A.

Here are the things that I changed in my configurations in order for me to accomplish that goal:

Corrected the SSL certificate order

I bought a COMODO certificate from namecheap.com a couple of months ago and tried to set it up. I didn’t realize that I concatenated the certificates wrongly (noob). To fix this, I recreated my certificate by concatenating it in the right order.